Benin jail escapee, one different arrested for electrical energy cable theft in Ogun

PRESSINFORMAT remembers that the Benin correctional centre in Edo State was damaged into throughout the violent EndSARS protest, resulting in the escape of some criminals, who had been by no means apprehended.

The 2 suspects had been arrested on July 16 by the Ogun State police command following info obtained by policemen at Ogbere police divisional headquarters.

The police had been knowledgeable that the facility set up at Hallmark College junction alongside Sagamu-Benin freeway had been vandalized by some hoodlums.

Upon the data, the DPO of Ogbere division mobilized to the scene alongside officers, in collaboration with males of the Amotekun Corps.

“On sighting the safety males, the hoodlums took to their heels whereas a getaway automobile they parked rapidly zoomed off with some cables,” Ogun Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated on Monday.

The boys had been chased by the police and the Benin jail escapee as effectively his confederate had been nabbed, PRESSINFORMAT learnt.

“On interrogation, it was found that Festus Okoeguare was an escapee from White Home Correctional Middle positioned at Sapele highway Benin metropolis. It was additional revealed that the escapee was convicted for homicide in 2010 and was sentenced to loss of life by hanging,” Oyeyemi disclosed this, stating that the Ogun Police Commissioner, Lanre Bankole has directed the switch of the suspects to State CIID “for correct profiling and onward switch to the Correctional Middle.”